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The Doe

October 13, 2010
By lemongirl BRONZE, A Tiny City In, Arkansas
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"..I know about art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being." - Toulouse-Lautrec (Moulin Rouge)

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forest dancer
with goddess eyes
lady of the bastion
golden tree-speaker
of delicate wiles
broad-leaf ears
flicker twitch swivel
persuade us forward
then flit away
from shadow to shadow
shaft to shaft
slanting shades of a certain grey
dappled burnished
tarnished bright
her gentle flow of
being alive

forest dancer
with goddess eyes
run to the earth
felled by so many princes
so noble and bright
by swift shining arrows
like lightning cold
and dead
shroud of flies
crows cry mourning

© Stephanie X., Seekonk, MA

The author's comments:
I've spent day after day watching the wild world revolve around my tiny pocket of civilization. I've seen too many once-wild things left to rot. It seems insensible to end a cycle without due cause.
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